The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, The Close, Norwich
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Overview
- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051330
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
- Statutory Address:
- The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, The Close, Norwich
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- Date:
- 2002-12-04
- Reference:
- IOE01/09219/22
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- Heritage Category:
- Listed Building
- Grade:
- I
- List Entry Number:
- 1051330
- Date first listed:
- 26-Feb-1954
- List Entry Name:
- The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
- Statutory Address 1:
- The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, The Close, Norwich
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.
Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.
For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.
Location
- Statutory Address:
- The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity, The Close, Norwich
The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
- County:
- Norfolk
- District:
- Norwich (District Authority)
- Parish:
- Non Civil Parish
- National Grid Reference:
- TG 23476 08911
Details
TG 2308 NW
TG 2308 NE
16/170
17/170
THE CLOSE
The Cathedral of the Holy and Undivided Trinity
26.2.54
I
Cathedral and Cloisters. C11 onwards. Begun in 1096 by Herbert de Losinga after the see was transferred from Thetford. Lincolnshire Limestone, Barnack Stone (Cambridgeshire) and Caen Stone, brick. Lead covered roofs. Nave with aisles. Choir. North transept with chapel. South transept with vestry. Presbytery with aisles and ambulatory. South, north-east and south-east chapels. East chapel. Cloisters to south. 14 bays to nave and choir. Three bays transepts. Four bays presbytery plus ambulatory. West front re-modelled c1830 by Salvin. Norman aisle portals. West door arch with diagonally-set niches and shallow vaulting. Large nine-light perpendicular window above door. C14 south aisle windows with cusped intersecting tracery. Norman tripartite clerestory windows with taller central window and blind arcading. Transepts with corner turrets. Shafted windows and blind arcading in seven orders. Doorway in north transept with two orders of shafts. Relief sculpture above doorway of a Bishop with crozier. The south transept was restored and rebuilt by Salvin c1830. Presbytery has square-headed four-light windows to the aisles and large four-light C14 clerestory windows with flying buttresses between. Crossing tower with four orders of arcading and shafted clasping buttresses with turrets and C15 spirelets. C15 crocketed spire with lucarnes.
Cloisters C11 and 1297-1430. William and John Ramsey, masons of South Range. Barnack stone, lead roofs. Eleven bays by eleven bays, two storey. Each bay three-light open tracery openings, single foiled lancet above. Corners occluded by projecting buttresses. Lierne vaults to all sides. Enriched door surrounds to first and eighth bay of nave. Fine triple entrance to Chapter House, E. range, Lavatorium W. range. Upper part west wall has several circular windows circa 1050-1070. Vaulted undercrofts behind south range (song-school).
Listing NGR: TG2347608911
Legacy
The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.
- Legacy System number:
- 228917
- Legacy System:
- LBS
Sources
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 26 February 2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html
Legal
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
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